KRISTA: UC center helps Ohio get smarter on crime

7:22 PM,
Jul. 25, 2013

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Most Ohioans will never know what a friend they've got in the University of Cincinnati's Center for Criminal Justice Research. Because of the center's work, they're spending less money on state corrections, getting a far bigger bang for every dollar they do pay and living safer.

The center's crowning achievement is a tool that helps the justice system - from judges to probation officers - determine which offenders are likely to commit more crimes, which are not and figure out what programs and services can get them to stop.

In Ohio, those are billion-dollar questions. In 2010, the state spent ...